Zvirynetska ( ua, Звіринецька) is a station of

Kyiv Metro The Kyiv Metro ( uk, Ки́ївський метрополіте́н, Kyivskyi metropoliten, ) is a rapid transit system in Kyiv that is owned by the Kyiv City Council and operated by the city-owned company Kyivsky Metropoliten''.'' It was initi ...

's Syretsko-Pecherska Line. It is situated between Pecherska and

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stations. This station was opened on 30 December 1991. Until May 2023 the station was named ''Druzhby Narodiv'' or Friendship of Peoples ( ua, Дружби Народів, , named after the former name of Mykola Mikhnovsky Boulevard, which is located above the station) Druzhby Narodiv station was designed by

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Alyoshkin and Krushynskiy. It is a deep-level station. The station is connected by

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s with a passenger tunnel situated under Mykola Mikhnovsky Boulevard. The station operates from 05:43 to 00:12.

History

On Friday 13 January 2023 the

Kyiv City Council Kyiv City Council ( uk, Київська міська рада, translit=Kyivska miska rada), also known as Kyivrada ( uk, Київрада), is the city council of Kyiv municipality, the highest representative body of the city community. The me ...

announced Druzhby Narodiv metro station would be renamed. In a poll organised by them Kyiv residents cast more than 100,000 votes for the renaming of seven city objects, including this station and Ploshcha Lva Tolstoho. In a May 2022 online poll (with 170,000 respondents) voters chose to rename the station ''Botanichna'' ( ua, Ботанічна, links=no, lit=Botanical) — after the nearby

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— in a poll taken during the

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; other choices included ''Yevropeiska'' (

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) and ''Chervona Kalyna'' ( Red Viburnum). The Druzhby Narodiv boulevard itself was renamed to

Mykola Mikhnovsky Mykola Ivanovych Mikhnovsky ( uk, Мико́ла Іва́нович Міхно́вський; – 3 May 1924) was a Ukrainian independence activist, lawyer and journalist who was one of the early leaders of the Ukrainian nationalist movement ...

boulevard on 8 December 2022. In the January 2023 poll the majority of votes went to the name Zvirynets (), a historical neighbourhood inside

Pecherskyi District Pecherskyi District ( uk, Печерський район) is an Urban districts of Ukraine, urban district of Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. It lies within the eponymous historical neighborhood, while also including some other historical areas. ...

where the metro station is situated in. On 18 May 2023 the Kyiv City Council renamed the station to ''Zvirynetska''.

References

External links

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Kyivsky Metropoliten
- Station description and Photographs *
Metropoliten.kiev.ua
- Station description and Photographs
Photo of the Station from WikiMaps
Kyiv Metro stations Railway stations opened in 1991 1991 establishments in Ukraine {{Ukraine-railstation-stub